Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Black-On-Black Crime Discussion Is a Racist Maneuver

Conservatives have a sudden interest in "black-on-black crime." I place the term in quotes, because it is a peculiar term reserved for blacks. Although most violent crimes are "intraracial," only black-on-black crime is set aside for special analysis.

Despite all of the attention that academics, activists, and individual blacks have given this issue, conservatives have suddenly jumped on the wagon. But their interest is simply exploitative. They do not care about black-on-black crime. Instead, they wish to condemn people for focusing on the racial dimensions the Trayvon Martin's story. I have already written on this subject.

MY GOOGLE SEARCH
Although listening to the conservative bile might lead one to believe that no one has ever cared about black homicide victims, this is simply untrue. I just performed a Google search (at 10:35AM EST) for "black on black crime," limiting the results to stories that were published between January 1, 2000 and February 25, 2012 (the day before Martin was killed). Here are the results, as per Google: About 80,700 results (0.19 seconds). Ergo, the conservatives are simply wrong. Let's move on to an honest discussion of homicides and race.

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Professor Darren Hutchinson teaches Constitutional Law, Remedies, Race and the Law, and a Civil Rights Seminar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Professor Hutchinson also holds the prestigious Stephen C. O’Connell Chair.
Professor Hutchinson received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before teaching law, Professor Hutchinson practiced commercial litigation at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in New York City. He also clerked for the late Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe, a former United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York.
Professor Hutchinson's research has appeared in many prestigious journals including the Cornell Law Review, Washington University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, University of Michigan Journal of Race and Law, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
He has also presented his research at numerous universities, including Yale, Stanford, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, University of Virginia, Cornell, Georgetown, and Boston University.

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